I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

Bears have attacked about 100 people in Japan since April and killed at least 13. Now the military has deployed troops to combat the attacks, according to the Japanese Ministry of Environment.

Teaching Vernon Lee, Ambrose Bierce, and Rudyard Kipling this week. Yes. At first I didn't think they can be taught together in the same class. Lol.

เราว่าตลกดีที่เดี๋ยวนี้ชอบวิจารณ์หนังสือหรือหนังว่า "ไม่เหมือนจริง" ทั้งๆที่ความจริงคืออะไรก็ไม่ได้รู้ขนาดนั้น เน้นเอาแต่ใจตัวเอง เช่น ฟังดูไม่เห็นอีสานเลย (ทั้งๆที่อีสานมีหลายสำเนียง) หรือทำไมนำเสนอคนอินเดียแบบนี้ คนอินเดียจริงๆเป็นแบบนี้ๆ ทั้งๆที่คนอินเดียมีหลายแบบ ถ้าเคลมอะไรเป็นจริง เป็น authentic ขึ้นมาเมื่อไร มันก็แทบจะลดทอนความหลากหลายหรือความเป็นไปได้อื่นๆของมนุษย์ออกไป

This Israeli government decision to host Tommy Robinson will widen the growing gulf between the Netanyahu government and the British public, including the broad majority of Jews in Britain (3/4 of whom dsapproved of Netanyahu, before this new link to this anti-Muslim racist UK far right convict).

Have you ever wanted to study the Gothic with me? At a British university but online so it's accessible to you anywhere? For a fraction of a usual university course cost? With delicious delicious library access? Come join me Liverpool uni starting October! www.liverpool.ac.uk/continuing-e...

On 12 August 30 BC, Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator, rather than submit to Rome, in the person of Octavian, ended her life through the bite of an Egyptian cobra. This act, immortalised in the later writings of Plutarch and Shakespeare, continues to resonate in popular culture. #Egyptology #Reception

The bitter feud fuelling the border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia

President Trump's action plan will give AI companies a blank check, with no safeguards to protect our rights. If the federal government won't act, states and cities must have the freedom to create regulations that protect us from Big Tech.

@britt-kathryn.bsky.social on why Amy Heckerling’s Clueless is one of the greatest films in the canon of Jane Austen adaptations.

@laurapoppick.bsky.social explains why glacial ice isn’t just a product of climate, but a force that shapes it.

I’m spreading the Vernon Lee agenda today. #literature #VernonLee #Victorian

At 17, Nedzad Avdic stood on a gravel plateau, hands tied, facing death. He was among the thousands of Bosnian Muslim men targeted in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. Now, as denial of war crimes spreads online, Avdic is committed to speaking out. nbcnews.to/455fTfe

Writing a keynote paper for @vpfa.bsky.social's annual conference about encounters with prehistoric animals in nineteenth-century fiction, and as I write Colossal Biosciences can't stop announcing that they're resurrecting extinct creatures. I prefer Jules Verne.

Julia Jorati, Slavery and Race: Philosophical Debates in the Eighteenth Century, Oxford University Press, 2024, 338pp., $39.95 (pbk), ISBN 9780197659243. Reviewed by Peter K. J. Park, University of Texas at Dallas #HistSTM #Slavery https://buff.ly/4jbJSbG

The august facades and impeccable decorum of our great institutions arise from fortunes built on slavery and murder. As WH Auden noted of Oxford: "Knowledge is conceived in the hot womb of Violence". This ritual cannibalism is perfectly symbolic of the whole. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

xAI has disabled Grok, deleted a slew of its antisemitic and neo-Nazi posts, posted a statement, and are evidently rolling back the prompt that made it identify as "MechaHitler," but this new low for Elon Musk's chatbot will live in internet infamy:

Chanang Amparak argues that birdwatching requires multi-sensory epistemologies, in the case of Calidris Pygmeae. Knowledeges about birds are contested among formal ornithologists with visual technology and workers on the salt field. #animalstudies #socioecology

The Military Road Between Sevastopol and Simferopol in the Time of the Crimean War by Konstantin Nikolayevich Filippov shows camels in the Crimean War!

#OnThisDay, 28 June 1491, a baby boy was born to Elizabeth of York and Henry VII of England, a brother to their eldest son and heir Arthur. They called him Henry - we do think he had something to do with a ship, quite a famous one too... maryrose.org/discover/his...

#นินทานิทาน กลับมาแล้วค่ะ เราปิดจบซีรีส์ไอยคุปต์ของเราด้วยโอเปราเรื่อง ไอดา (Aida) ของจูเซปเป เวรดี (Giuseppe Verdi) คุณเอิร์ธพามาดูเรื่องราวในดินแดนไอยคุปต์โบราณ อันว่าด้วยเจ้าหญิงไอดา แห่งเอธิโอเปีย ผู้กลายเป็นคนรับใช้เจ้าหญิงอัมเนริส แห่งอียิปต์ เมื่อไอดารักราดาเมส ขุนพลแห่งแผ่นดินไอยคุปต์ผู้กำลังเดินทางไปยึดครองเอธิโอเปีย ความขัดแย้งระหว่างความรักและการเมืองปะทุ

James Joyce's Ulysses and the nonhuman: Nestor (A thread) [I'm a beginner for Joyce's writing, and I want to make a thread of quotes from Ulysses and pictures I think quite related to the quotes, sometimes not so directly.)

This week was the 50th anniversary of Jaws, and I spoke to a lot of journalists about it. I’ve rounded up my media outreach here for you, the people www.southernfriedscience.com/a-roundup-of... 🧪🌎🦑🐠🦈

Avengers Academy. Justin Jin/Marcus Wetherell. 🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride Month, babes 🏳️‍🌈 If you're not reading this series, you should be. It just keeps getting better and better. 🎨

Mahmoud Khalil reunites with family after more than 100 days in Ice detention

Our book -- The breakup of India and Palestine: The causes and legacies of partition -- published by Manchester University Press is now available to purchase in paperback: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526191106/

By being portrayed as Saint Agatha, this woman found a unique way to show off her breasts. Thanks to Sebastiano del Piombo, whose day is today.

After 104 days of being unjustly detained for his advocacy for Palestinian rights, Mahmoud Khalil is finally home with his wife and newborn son.

#Pagan #AncientEgypt I just read a few things about Goddess Nephthys (I haven’t started reading academic works yet.), and I thought about writing my devotional, but also culturally critical writing, concerning the stories about gods and goddesses. I don’t know if it’s gonna work.

Check paragraph 5: “States should adopt and enforce explicit and time-bound legislative measures: (a) To prohibit new fossil fuel exploration and exploitation, as well as any expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure.” Greenpeace is calling on the EU to do just that

Congratulations to Dr Ruth Abbott, the 2025 Gordon Duff Prize winner 🥇 Ruth was awarded the Prize for a compelling essay titled: 'Transcribers of the Mind: Copying Historical Manuscripts in the British Museum Reading Room, 1759-1795'. Find out more about the Prize: https://loom.ly/xZZOdOc

Al Pacino becomes first film star to meet Pope Leo XIV

How Sharks Got Their Reputation Back From “Jaws”

King Rama VI probably posed as #SherlockHolmes. This image, along with his adaptation of Sherlock Holmes, epitomises Rama VI’s attempt to show Thailand as a rational, logical nation, challenging against European depiction of the Orient as a superstitious nation. #Thaistudies #History #Literature

Director of Museum Siam, Kusra Mukdawijitra, talks about how she curated an exibition about ghosts in the museum building, exploring their histories and contexts. #ThaiStudies #Museumstudies #SEAstudies #History

❤️❤️❤️ Gorgeous interpretation from Thitarat Panchana at PBIC, Thammasat University. #Thaistudies #Ghost #Necropolitics #SEAstudies

At PBIC, Thammasat, we learned that a few of Thai democratic activists were afraid of ghosts, while dictators said they were not! #Ghosts #Gothic

My facebook account has been told to turn into a professional mode, or else nobody who would just want to follow me online won't be able to do that anymore. I was like....What? So I'll post anything public here then.

Thanks to @marthastewart.com for featuring @honeysommelier.bsky.social Marina Marchese and THE WORLD ATLAS OF HONEY in their article on tupelo honey: www.marthastewart.com/what-is-tupe...

Each of the articles in this special issue theorizes the [] between trans and crip in distinct yet interconnected ways, expanding on the dynamic tension between difference and alignment. I’ll be introducing them throughout June. @dukepress.bsky.social

A new biography on the anvil: Edward Harley, 2nd earl of Oxford, son of 'the Great Man', Robert Harley. Like his father, Oxford was an inveterate collector, one of his possessions being 'Queen Bertha's Comb', which he had acquired in 1720. It later passed into the hands of Horace Walpole...

🌿 A new special issue of Journal of Romance Studies explores how language teaching & research can address ecological crises. Featuring global voices, eco-pedagogies & cultural insights. Read more: bit.ly/ECOMODLANG @ilcs.bsky.social @erieriverbirch.bsky.social‬ @eedgington.bsky.social #envhum ‬

ใครว่างวันอาทิตย์เช้า มาฟังเปเปอร์เรื่องนางยักษ์ พืช และ #ฟอสบุ๊ค ได้นะคะ อิอิ ที่สถาบันปรีดี มธ ท่าพระจันทร์ค่ะ (คิดว่าคงจะพูดเป็นภาษาอังกฤษค่ะ ถ้ามีคนฟังต่างชาติ)

Judges have announced the finalists for the 2025 ASLE Book Awards in #ecocriticism and #environmental creative writing! www.asle.org/stay-informe... #booksky

Gotta love an 86-year-old woman with the heart of a poster

Today marks the Feast Day of the great Colmcille (St Columba), so for this edition of our free #MonumentMonday newsletter we take a trip to his homeland of Gartan in County Donegal. Here we encounter a pilgrimage route and a strange stone known as Leac na Cumha, meaning 'the Stone of Sorrow'.

One of the coolest features of the Agami Heron is its gorgeous, flowing crest that flutters as it poses and preens. But I've never seen it up close before with the details and textures. #CostaRica #herons #nature #birds

"The story of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘶𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘨’𝘴 𝘊𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦 (2021) begins almost exactly 400 years ago, in a very faraway place—so far away that very few of you are likely to have heard of it." Read @amitav.bsky.social's new essay under springs-rcc.org/the-nutmegs-... #rccsprings #nutmeg #colonialism #envhum #openaccess

It’s the immigrants in LA fighting back against authoritarianism. Jesus, America. Do these people have to do ALL the hard jobs you don’t want to do yourself?

I wanted to make a joke about ICE age being primitive, but I just pity the mammoths, who, I believe, knew better about co-existence and co-evolution that some of the humans these days.